Netanyahu Decision to Attack Iran ‘Almost Final’
Israeli PM, DM Looking at Attack Right Before US Vote
Israel’s top television media outlet, Channel 2 News, has announced today that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are extremely close to finalizing a decision to attack Iran, saying that the decision could be made any day now.
The two have been pushing for a war for quite some time and are seen “on the brink ” of approving it despite strong opposition from the Israeli military leadership. The news follows unsubstantiated claims earlier this week that Iran’s civilian program is nearing a “breakthrough” and that Netanyahu is convinced the US won’t launch the war for them.
The reports have the same timetable we’ve been seeing for months now, with Israel launching the attack in the weeks leading up to the US Presidential election in November. In February US officials termed the weeks before the vote a “sweet spot” for such a war.
It also includes an analysis of the US election, with Israelis deciding Obama is unlikely to attack Iran before the election and that neither he nor Mitt Romney would be liable to do so in the first year after the vote.
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ML3
August 10th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
2 desperately unpopular faux religious lunatics desperately looking for a foreign scapegoat for their domestic failures who need to be put to sleep for the good of all mankind.
redwood
August 10th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
They need to be put to sleep along with Ehud Barack Obama, Mutt Rodent and other world leaders and members of their administrations.
Mike
August 10th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
By the standards established in Nuremberg, these two ought to be hanged for conspiring to wage a war of aggression.
Duglarri
August 10th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
We can look forward to these two being tried and imprisoned by their own countrymen a few years from now. If they have countrymen a few years from now.
skulz fontaine
August 10th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Netanyahu plays a dangerous game of nuclear chicken. Bibi's "decision to attack is ALMOST final?" Well good luck with that you insane freak. Netanyahu's histrionics are boring, banal, crypto-ridiculous, petulant, pissy, stupid, AND tiresome.
Sit down and STFU Herr Prime Minister. Enough is enough.
MvGuy
August 10th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
Remember what happened when little $iht Georgia attacked Russia ………!!! Also it will set a precedent that could come back to destroy the rogue nuclear state………….
Ken
August 10th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
It makes sense. It would appear the Romulan would be more likely to attack Iran (or nod and let Israel launch the initial assualt) than Obammie. But as the election draws nearer the Romulan is going down in the polls.
So maybe Nuttyyahoo has his own October surprise. He will attack Iran like he wants, send oil prices through the ceiling and instantly throw the economy into the crapper and thus help elect his old friend, the Romulan get elected. A hell of a plan, indeed.
mojo
August 10th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
He doesn't give a shiiittte, bibi wants to get paid by building new settlements on stolen lands, he simply demanding for the American people to pay him with their blood. Otherwise his ready “almost” to go to war. Good luck you…., I have no words for this man and the Israeli government any more, they are not worthy of any word which would describe them as humans.
byrd_bahls22
August 10th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
I hope Iran gives them both barrels. Up their old keesters !
JDonald
August 10th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
I hope Pakistan or Russia drop a nuclear bomb on Tel Aviv. That is what is will take to talk sense to the likes of Netanyahu.
mark
August 10th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
If Israel attacks Iran it must be properly understood as a war crime, with Washington as a co-conspirator. Those responsible deserve to be hanged.
Johnny in Wi.
August 10th, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Netanyahu has been talking war and using nuclear weapons for decades. The world needs to get rid of him and his entity. There will never be peace as long as long as mad dogs like him are allowed among civiled people. The whole world should shun this guy and sanctions need to be put on Israel not Iran.
RParker
August 10th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Okay, fat boy–let's see if you have the balls to attack someone who can actually shoot real bullets, missiles and bombs back at you and not just teenagers throwing rocks, and without your puppet U.S. of Zion to help you out. We're all tired of your hot, smelly air and bad stage-acting.
Cloak And Dagger
August 10th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Some people never learn!
After they had their ass handed to them in Lebanon, they are actually contemplating attacking Iran? I am willing to bet that even Obama is not stupid enough to back them on this adventure.
Iran is not Iraq – and a lot stronger militarily than Lebanon. Israel may do some initial damage with a sneak attack, but they have no idea what a torrential downpour of missiles from Iran can do to them.
I also predict that if Obama is stupid enough to go to war after a pre-emptive strike on Iran by Israel, he can kiss re-election goodbye. Unlike previous history, going to war for Israel this time will bear no fruit. Too many people know that the 'Iran threat' is a farce! The zio-media did not count on the surge of alternative news on the Internet, as evidenced by their plummeting readership. More people are awake and asking questions than ever before, despite all the attempts from the hasbara and the megaphonies to drown out the conversation.
If not for so many innocent people getting killed in this misadventure, I would actually like to see Israel go it alone against Iran. It should shut that sh**ty little country up for good.
Israel has been threatening to attack Iran for many years now. Do you think that Iranians have been sitting on their asses all this time twiddling their thumbs? You can bet your bottom dollar that they have been preparing a formidable defense and counter-strike. I don't for a minute think that Iran is just going to turn the other cheek!
Oh, and do you think Russia and China are going to stand idly by and watch their interests in the ME disappear quietly? Do you really think that Russia did not actually provide Iran with S-300 gear, albeit surreptitiously through Syria?
Israel's IDF has been fighting defenseless Palestinians for decades. They are poorly prepared to take on a well-trained Iranian army. The only way they can make inroads is by waging a nuclear attack on Iran. If they do that, then it is bye-bye Israel.
Fixin To Die Rag
August 10th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
Benny the nut threats should come with a two drink minimum
DonM
August 10th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
If we consider that this has been in the works for some time and what we're seeing is just political acting, then everything else sort of makes sense. Attacking Iran? With what? Israeli air, ground forces or nukes? Not likely. Leaving the U.S. as the hammer. But what do we plan to do, nuke the place? Never. And we don't begin to have the ground forces to do the job. So it leaves us with air destruction, which has never won a war by itself.
So I wonder what these lame-wits have in mind. The only thing that would work would be nukes to make Iran knuckle under. So… are our leaders cooking up some justification for nukes? It just seems unthinkable, even for these creeps.
the lion
August 11th, 2012 at 12:05 am
Even if they get US backing it will not matter, Iran will have taken out much of the Israeli Airforce, UNLESS Israel attacks with Jericho Missiles, which would require a Nuclear Attack, to start off!
If Israel attacks with Nukes it is finished as a nation state!
No matter what happens next!
Yonatan
August 11th, 2012 at 12:28 am
Bibi – you and whose army?
"IDF chief Benny Gantz, IDF Intelligence head Aviv Kochavi, Air Force commander Amir Eshel, Mossad director Tamir Pardo and Shin Bet head Yoram Cohen are against a war" – Larry Derfner, 972mag.com
http://972mag.com/the-israeli-establishments-mira…
Hassan Goldstein
August 11th, 2012 at 12:33 am
Perhaps somewhat more sane members of the military can lock these lunatics into a nice padded cell where they belong… and throw away the key.
Peacegeek
August 11th, 2012 at 2:41 am
The Israeli media are reporting that the besieged casino billionaire, Sheldon Adelson and "his boy" Mitt Romney are the strongest backers of an independent Israeli strike against Iran in the run-up to the US presidential election. Presumably, an Israeli strike will help Mitt Romney criticize Obama's foreign policy as "too weak, too dovish and too anti-Israel." And, it must be noted that Adelson is the biggest financial backer of both: Mitt Romney and Binyamin Netanyahu – as well as the owner of the largest free daily in Israel – Israel Hayom (Israel Today) that stands to gain advertising revenues if he can shove the tiny nation into a self-destructive war. Who knows, but after the deluge, Adelson might even be willing to put up casinos in Israel to help restore the shattered economy.
klyde
August 11th, 2012 at 2:55 am
When I saw the headline on the front page I thought if the Zionist want to ensure Obama's defeat they will have to attack Iran just before the election and it appears that is their plan. What's amazing is that they have apparently been given the tacit green light by Romney and his GOP backers yet the US media is deaf, dumb and blind to this act of treason.
peter vojta
August 11th, 2012 at 3:09 am
Visions of "Fourth Reich Leaders", fanatism and Evil ideologies…It did not die with Hitler, but was perfected in decades by these Satanists with finger on WMD weapons. Mankind will dearly, dearly regreat!!! year 1948 as "The biggest embarising mistake in UN history" and horrors of wars this "Evil ideology" will execute/sponsor by its deceptive policy will be "WAKE UP Call" for ignorant masses – unfortunaly to late… peter czech
Popsiq
August 11th, 2012 at 3:55 am
A "final decision"? There's something so very GROFAZ-tik about final decisions and solutions, nein?
This is getting serious. Nobody's paying any attention to Bennie and his pet Donkey. And that is cause for concern.
Up until now they got whatever they wanted by threatening to attack Iran without a say-so. Now America's preoccupied, the neighborhood is in an uproar. The Iranians continue to ignore them and so what's a warmonger to do, nu? Invade Gaza?
Say, there's a thought.
Popsiq
August 11th, 2012 at 3:59 am
Georgia's not a little shit. It's a gallant little nation, just like Israel. Only with a slightly smaller Jewish population.
curmudgeonvt
August 11th, 2012 at 4:25 am
The rub of this is that I don't have faith that the American government will respond correctly if the Israeli government decides to attack Iran just prior to the US election. The Obama Admin will buckle to the implied pressure to take to arms against a country that has done nothing to us. And the Romney campaign will use any "dithering" to try and prove incompetence on Obama's part – despite the likelihood that if roles were reversed Romney would be not likely to rush to join an ill-advised war just because an Israeli administration wants it.
Sucking the US into fighting this war for Israel is so obvious a ploy that I find the possibility of it working – in a normal world – near zero. But…things are so frigging out of whack that I know I'm wrong and that one could most likely take the result to the bank. If Obama allows Netanyahoo to drag the US into a war we, as a nation, do not want nor can afford, then he will surely be a one-term President. And we cannot afford to allow Romney the keys to the Treasury.
Dr.Khan
August 11th, 2012 at 5:15 am
It will b interesting to see how Is-real go to war with Iran wid or widout USA.I believe it will be very sad and destructive at the end but seems like a little price for the coming generations to live in peace without IS-REAL…if thats exactly on these couple idiots on mind then bring it on.We too want to see an end to the foggy wars.
T. McGuire
August 11th, 2012 at 5:48 am
Israel did 911 for Bush-Cheney and now are trying to get a payback on an Iran attack. Israel is one the way out: let them all come to America, what is four million Jews in a sea of Mexicans?
Roger Lafontaine
August 11th, 2012 at 5:49 am
It sounds like Netanyahu is exerting his 'authority' over the American administration. His pleas for war soon turned into demands and now they are beginning to sound like marching orders.
W_ThePoster
August 11th, 2012 at 6:03 am
Little old church ladies who afflict my mother with their daily rightwing Foxfeed can't STOP, since May, talking about 'dear little Israel' and it's 'attackers'. That Rove machine using 'christian' churches to mass manufacture delusions for the GOP is all fired up, working for Nuttinyahoo. It's tied so close to the worship of America as God's chosen people that it's felt less as a crusade than as a self-evident moral imperative, an index of moral sanity. You doubt Israel's goodness, you're dirty. If Obama gives in, the majority response may be to regard unprovoked, stupid, venal warmaking as Normal.
JDonald
August 11th, 2012 at 7:03 am
The Israeli strategy to keep that tiny country as the number one news item (at least in the USA and UK) is working. Unfortunately, it is based upon snubbing their noses at the UN Security Council edicts, at terrorizing those in the surrounding states that do not agree with their greatness and occupying whatever lands they deem necessary to keep the pot stirred. I do not believe that the Israelis could live peacefully within their UN mandated borders as has been offered by surrounding Arab states. There would immediately be an Israeli civil war between the ultra-religious (theocrats) and the ultra-liberal (hedonists of Tel Aviv) for control of the country. If representation by population were all that counted, the secular boys should be in control.
Jamal
August 11th, 2012 at 7:14 am
The beginning of Israel's end will come on the day after US Presidential elections if they attack Iran. Iran isn't stupid. Their response will be slow and guarded. They certainly aren't going to force Obama's hand by responding before US elections.
Go ahead and attack Iran if you dare. The only thing that will happen is that Iran's anti-Israeli rhetoric will be turned into actions. It will surely mean the end of Israel.
JDonald
August 11th, 2012 at 7:23 am
It continues to surprise me how antiwar.com will publish comments that are “off the wall”, entirely bizarre and obviously not well thought out and denies the publication of comments by those of us who honestly are seeking a just solution to the Middle East problems. Maybe rational approaches are no longer in vogue, at least in Israle and at antiwar.com.
[Moderator's note: It continues to surprise ME how every commenter whose comment gets caught in our spam filters and takes awhile to be approved jumps to the conclusion that he's being ideologically censored. Maybe one of those commenters would like to buy me one of those cell phone Internet gadgets so that I can get to their comments more quickly when my cable Internet is on the blink. Naaah, never happen - TLK]
LoneWolfWarrior
August 11th, 2012 at 7:27 am
Benjamin Netanyahu – the new HITLER!
Leland Mellott1
August 11th, 2012 at 9:29 am
We are moving ineluctably towards world destruction in thermonuclear holocaust.
Aarky
August 11th, 2012 at 9:50 am
Don't forget that Adelson handed $25 million to the Newt for his primary campaign. Newt would have selected John ( The bomb thrower) Bolton as his Secretary of State. Just because someone throws money into the campaign doesn't mean their man/ prostitute will win. People stopped listening to Gingrich real quick as soon as he started talking about those bad Iranians.
JJJihad
August 11th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Why does the Israeli leadership speak and act so openly with the understanding that they are entitled to induce the US political classes into joining in a military assault on Iran? Even though such a venture not only does not promote any American interest (except for the parochial Israeli nationalism of American Jewry), but will destroy the US economy and lead to chaos? Could it be because they have done it successfully for over 40 years?
blutopie
August 11th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
There needs to be 'Coalition of the Willing' organized to enforce a NO FLY out of Israel Zone around Israel-
So far we know that Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia are on board this a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to create a NO FLY ZONE out of Israel and box Israel in – this eliminates the Northern and Southern routes by which Israel can attack Iran.
All that’s left is to close the last avenue ( the Central route over Jordan and American-controlled Iraq) possible for Israel to launch an illegal attack which will destroy the American economy – and as Zbig Brezinzski recommends, the Americans should seal off this last Israeli route and hermetically seal Israel in and save America from Israeli plans to drag it into a war with Iran
HUNCHMIN
August 11th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
please all of you ….watch this video. This man predicted soo many events in the run to, and after 9/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkWugDHrTc
David
August 11th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
May the Israeli government be the first thing destroyed in any counter attack. This outlaw terrorist regime will pay dearly, and deservingly so.
Guest
August 11th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
gallant? How so??
timtom
August 12th, 2012 at 9:19 am
What seems odd is the constant announcing, "We're gonna getcha!" "Okay, we're really gonna getcha, now." "I'm serious this time. We're coming to getcha." "We're getting closer…"
And so forth. If Iran (just like Iraq) REALLY had nuclear capabilities, wouldn't they have invoked them somewhere in the saber-rattling leading up to a strike?
Grace
August 12th, 2012 at 9:20 am
Iran is about to destroy Israel. This is going to tank the world economy.
Andy
August 12th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Dont you think Israel will try a false flag attack to blame on Iran in an attempt to get the rest of the world to hate them?
If there's any doubts whether Iran made 'the attack' then China Russia and other allies may not rush to Iran's defence…
thad
August 12th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
natanyaha was one of the under cover agents that stold nuclear wepons from us for israel why isnt he in jail? obama lied about his birth place and has stollen ss why isnt he in jail? mit romney would fill obamas shoes he is under cover mosaad agent, what a crew !
Aarky
August 12th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Until the price of oil jumps back to $130-150 per barrel, there will be no attack by Israel. In 2008, the Israeli insiders were certain that Bush would back themon an attack against Iran and tipped their hedge fund buddies, with the expectation that prices would easily quadruple. Billions were madeuntil Bush truned down the Israelis citing the 2007 intell estimate that stated Iran was not building nukes. The prices then dropped drastically. The same thing happened earlier this year when the intell and military side of Israel along with the Kadima political party outvoted the warmongers who wanted to attack. That's why the price of oil dropped from $110 to 77 per barrel. The Israelis and also Iran have rattled the saber to try to drive up prices again. The WH has finally started to talk back to the Israel Firsters in Congress and the Israel propaganda machine in the US. That talkback is long overdue.